Quotes by Playwrights - Page 32

It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it.
W Somerset Maugham
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
John Dryden
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
Jean Genet
Men of few words are the best men."(3.2.41)
William Shakespeare
She sat in the sunshine watching the life on the street and guarding within herself, her own mystery of life.
Betty Smith
The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.
Robert Greene
Thy life is safe while any god saves mine.
Sophocles
Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.
William Shakespeare
Or was he saying, "Hi! Wanna play?"And I did. Of course I did.
Jeff Lindsay
Most people coming out of war feel lost and resentful. What had been a minute-to-minute confrontation with yourself your struggle with what courage you have against discomfort at the least and death at the other end ties you to the people you have known in the war and makes for a time others seem alien and frivolous.
Lillian Hellman
Drink today and drown all sorrow You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow.
John Fletcher
Desire is both imitative (we like what others like) and competitive (we want to take away from others what they have). As children, we wanted to monopolize the attention of a parent, to draw it away from other siblings. This sense of rivalry... makes people compete for the attention.
Robert Greene
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
Oliver Goldsmith
Perhaps terror and peace became the same thing when life's mysteries were unveiled. In the Bhagavad Gita, when Krishna reveals his divine form at Arjuna's request, Arjuna is terrified at seeing what no mortal can stand to see. But the end to human doubt surely must also bring with it a definite, final peace.
Padma Viswanathan
A soulless city creates soulless people!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Give all that you can. No more. No less. Every. Single. Day.
Christy Hall
When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.
Jean-Paul Sartre
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
William Shakespeare
If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats.
Bertolt Brecht
If you deny yourself commitment what can you do with your life?
Harvey Fierstein
for a woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea
Honoré de Balzac
Poor or rich, black or white, quiet or naughty, mentally defective or sharp-witted, thin or fat, all children are great!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I don’t know: perhaps it’s a dream, all a dream. (That would surprise me.) I’ll wake, in the silence, and never sleep again. (It will be I?) Or dream (dream again), dream of a silence, a dream silence, full of murmurs (I don’t know, that’s all words), never wake (all words, there’s nothing else).You must go on, that’s all I know.They’re going to stop, I know that well: I can feel it. They’re going to abandon me. It will be the silence, for a moment (a good few moments). Or it will be mine? The lasting one, that didn’t last, that still lasts? It will be I?You must go on.I can’t go on.You must go on.I’ll go on. You must say words, as long as there are any - until they find me, until they say me. (Strange pain, strange sin!) You must go on. Perhaps it’s done already. Perhaps they have said me already. Perhaps they have carried me to the threshold of my story, before the door that opens on my story. (That would surprise me, if it opens.)It will be I? It will be the silence, where I am? I don’t know, I’ll never know: in the silence you don’t know.You must go on.I can’t go on.I’ll go on.
Samuel Beckett
An old man is twice a child.
William Shakespeare
I shouldn't be surprised. Catholicism is the ultimate loophole religion (sin, confess, repeat), so it makes sense that a priest would know better than anyone how to work the angles. Still, when you go to confession and say, "Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned," you don't expect him to say, "So, who hasn't?
Marc Acito
And thereby hangs a tale.
William Shakespeare
We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.
Thomas Bernhard
Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find.
William Shakespeare
If you can add a great beauty to something which is already beautiful, then you must be very beautiful like a white swan adding beauty to a misty lake!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I'm a drinker with writing problems.
Brendan Behan
Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.
Oscar Wilde
And you find some way to surviveAnd you find out you don't have to be happy at all..To be happy you're alive.
Brian Yorkey
They had laid the tender, down-ruffled little bird on a platter and appeared now to be pondering a way to eat out its heart without causing it distress.
Yukio Mishima
You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature. Poetry. Drama. History. Archeology. Anthropology. Mythology. Music. These are your tools as much as brush and pigment. You cannot be an artist until you are civilized. You cannot be civilized until you learn. To be civilized is to know where you belong in the continuum of our art and your world. To surmount the past, you must know the past.
John Logan
It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing.
Knut Hamsun
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these.
T.S Eliot
Those who live in the country get idiotic in time, without noticing it, for a while they think it's original and good for their health, but life in the country is not original at all, for anyone who wasn't born in and for the country it shows a lack of taste and is only harmful to their health. The people who go walking in the country walk right into their own funeral in the country and at the very least they lead a grotesque existence which leads them first into idiocy, then into an absurd death.
Thomas Bernhard
When the water is very calm and very beautiful, it won’t take a long time that a thick head will throw a stone in it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
... in spite of being happier than I ever dreamed I could be, I'm also soberer. The fear that something may happen to you rests like a shadow on my heart. Always before I could be frivolous and carefree and unconcerned, because I had nothing precious to lose. But now -- I shall have a Great Big Worry all the rest of my life. Whenever you are away from me I shall be thinking of all the automobiles that can run over you, or the signboards that can fall on your head or the dreadful, squirmy germs that you may be swallowing.
Jean Webster
Knitting is a good way to pass the time when you're waiting for something to die.
David Demchuk
Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
Joseph Addison
I don't mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart; the same way you can hear a song in your head even if there isn't a radio playing; the same way you can hear those blackbirds flying when they're not in the sky
Adam Rapp
If I ever said in grief or pride I tired of honest things I lied.
Edna Saint Vincent Millay
These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving for them? If the blood vessels could hold them, how much better to keep those early loves with us?
Tennessee Williams
Never say more than is necessary.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I love the stillness of a room, after a party. The chairs are moved, the cushions disarranged, everything is there to show that people enjoyed themselves; and one comes back to the empty room happy that it's over, happy to relax and say, 'Now we are alone again.
Daphne du Maurier
Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?
Tom Stoppard
We are different, my friend. We are visionaries. A monkey looks up and sees and banana, and that is as far as he looks. But a visionary looks up and sees the moon.
Eoin Colfer
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
George Bernard Shaw
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
Karen Sunde
Sun of himself. All things are his moons.
Kate Tempest
Until the day of his death no man can be sure of his courage.
Jean Anouilh
A ship on the port always waits for you to sail to the oceans!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.
Miguel de Cervantes
We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seeded refusal of that which others have made of us.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When we lose one we love our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Maurice Maeterlinck
It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must be a little in love with death!
Eugene O'Neill
Death is another bar which lies several steps below the normal world. I'm at its threshold, but not yet in it. Its doorway is doorless.
Kathy Acker
Anywhere in the world, if you see a law which is protecting the rapists, you must know that this law has been prepared by the rapists!
Mehmet Murat ildan